Survey begun by Louise Cowell and Jean Gurkin April, 2013 and completed by Ted Hill from Baltimore in April 2014 when he was here visiting and Jean. This cemetery is located about .1 mile at the back of the field next to the first house on the right after turning off Clay Bottom School Road on […]

The James H. Hill Cemetery Surveyed by Ted Hill To get to this cemetery from Chocowinity, go South on US Hwy 17 about 5 miles and turn left on Possum Track Road, #1127, go about 2 miles and turn right on Haw Branch Road, # 1129, go about 1 ½ miles to 1378 Haw […]

The land for the Poor House/County was purchased in 1827. However we have not been able to locate any records for burials at the County Home until the registration of Death Certificates which began in latter part of 1913. Louise Cowell and I reviewed each death certificate at the Register of Deeds in Washington, […]

Beaufort County Register of Deeds Book 15, pages 429 -430 Whereas the Wardens of the Poor for the County of Beaufort now by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina passed in the year One thousand eight hundred & Eighteen authorized and required to procure a piece of land […]

When this marker was seen by Chris Edwards while hunting he thought it was a head stone. When he told me about it I told him I felt sure it was a foot stone and asked him to show me where it is located which he did. I started probing around in the sunken in place just behind the […]